We woman are vain creatures. It will make me happy to always believe that you would have chosen me, just as I am certain Courtney will always need to ...elieve she was the one. No woman wants to be second choice. The only way to preserve both of our illusions is to never tell. I beg of you, Darryl, promise you will never tell anyone what you were about to say."She stopped and sat down. Everyone sat there in stunned silence. Finally Darryl got up and embraced her. He kissed her tenderly and then. “Shego, do something!” Drakken screamed as his eyes flipped back and forth between the two groups closing in on them, “Fight them or something. Isn’t that what you’re good at.”“Yeah, I’m good at fighting Kimmie. I don’t feel like fighting her Miss glowy hands over there.” Shego replied, motioning towards Starfire, “We got what we came for so I say we retreat.”“Shego, wait!” Drakken cried as Shego grabbed him by the arm, shot a grappling hook through the glass window and pulled the two of them. " Ben sent a silent prayer of thanks to Alex, his father's ranch manager, who'd given him extra over the cost of a truck to replace Ben's old one the ranch had used. Without that, he'd be up a creek, he knew.The other kept staring at Ben. "You'll have to do a four-mile run, too, at nine minutes a mile. Did you eat breakfast today?" Ben indicated he had."Can you produce your medical records proving you had a physical within the last year?"Ben smiled for the first time since he'd arrived.. Knowing that I could keep her in the lifestyle she was accustomed to had to explain her attraction to me. Never admitting that to me when I asked, her answer was that I was different from the rest of the guys. She is so wholesome and pure, it never occurred to me that she could be lying. We had a Harlequin romance, it seemed that we were invincible to the problems that killed so many other people’s marriages. The perfect house, in the perfect neighborhood. The nice cars, with nice clothes, the.